In this tutorial we will make a running sheep animation :-D. Before we get started, lets take a look at the final result we’ll be creating. This is a very simple flash animation  that can be good tutorial for beginner :-D.

Let’s start…..

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About eight years ago, I wrote my first website and was very happy when it succesfully published at geocities and worked pretty well on the internet. Then, I started to learn PHP to make a dynamic website. I’ve been using many free hosting sevice and have gone through more than 5 different service for finding the best one. And then, I’ve been finally taken the plunge and settled on a paid hosting services and have bought a domain name to go with it, bayubayu.com. But as a matter of fact, there had been no significant update on my web for last few years

Now, here I am, at long last, back here and decide to take care of my web. :-p

Now Powered by Wordpress
I had build my own engine for my website (BayuBayuCMS). But Later, I got stuck with my website administration.. It was not very comfortable.
As a long time using my own made CMS, I somehow managed to miss the wordpress bandwagon. And I want my CMS work as easy as wordpress powered blog. (my last update for BayuBayuCMS was add TinyMCE, a wysiwyg post editor similar to that used on wordpress).

So I decided to improve my CMS or develop a new one. But I’m too lazy and didn’t have much time. It will spend a lot of my time developing new CMS if the result is just almost like a clone of wordpress.. Yes, it’s easy to make a simple blog engine with PHP. but if you want a quality product. it must cover all aspect like architecture, security, templating system, control panel administration, etc.. Not worthed if you just build it for your personal blog that used by yourself only.

The other choice is using a popular open-source script like:Nucleus, WordPress, Drupal, b2evolution, pMachine, etc. You can get all benefit from its big community like numerous ready-to-use functions, libraries and remarkable plugins.
But, if you prefer, have much time, decide to learn PHP programming, studying about CMS development, or really need an own specific features.. so, create your own CMS.. you will have full control and get an custom product exactly what you need.. Alternatively, instead of writing application from scratch, you can consider using PHP framework like: CodeIgniter, CakePHP or Zend Framework. Using an existing framework will help you build your application faster.

I just need a generic CMS, So I started finding open-source product that suit for my site’s requirements.
There are many php scripts available. After searching, two candidates are Wordpress and Drupal. Each has its strength and weakness and ultimately falls to what your preference for certain features might be.
Drupal is full-fledged CMS and it seems have too much features than I need. So I choose wordpress.

And finally, I recently replaced BayuBayuCMS 1.0 with Wordpress 2.3.3 on my website in a matter of minutes, and now i enjoying a simple, clean, feature-rich blog platform that is easy to customize and just works. Now I know what I was missing..

Now in English, ugh
Yeah, I’m Indonesian and my former site is written in bahasa Indonesia.. Im not good in english, and more comfortable with my native language.. But after looking at my website statistics, it seems that written in english is a must. oooh….So i forced to do it..huehe…… Pleasee.. forgive my english \^_^, (I think I must take a english course ASAP)

Best free editor for ActionScripts for Windows

This is not a full review on all ActionScript IDE’s however only a short information about some free IDE/editor that I recommend you to try..

SciTE|Flash
As mentioned in its homepage, SciTE|Flash based on SciTE, a popular cross platform text editor.. SciTE|Flash is custom SciTE distribution optimized for actionscript editing. SciTE|Flash inherits SciTE original features and add some spesific features like syntax highlighting for ActionScript, flash lexer, code hints, and integration with Flush (tool created by Robin Debreuil, used to export/test movies without ever leaving editor)

SciTE|Flash is no longer maintained by its author. However, its still nice small editor when you need to look or edit single ActionScript file.

SE|PY ActionScript Editor
SE|PY is python-wxpython based actionscript editor with alot of features. It using scintilla for text highlighting (same engine with Sci|TE).SE|PY offer far more than just syntax highlighting or code hints, it comes with code autocompletion, class browser, snippets panel, XML reader, flash api panel (access help documentation), Automatic JavaDoc creation from methods, Syntax checker and complier with MTASC, and many more..
This editor was my favourite when I often work with actionscript 1. (and then switched to FlashDevelop for working with AS2/AS3)

FlashDevelop
FlashDevelop is a .NET open source script editor designed mostly for Actionscript 2 and 3 development with seamless Adobe Flex SDK and swfmill/MTASC integration. There are so many feature that can be seen at its official website. FlashDevelop is very quick to setup and easy to use as an external editor for the Flash IDE or as a complete open source development environment.
so far..I personally think that it is best ActionScript IDE I’ve ever tried..

here is Paw Paw Miaw, my new flash game.

Paw Paw Miaw is An exciting cat battle fighting game where you must beat all enemies in a one on one battle through 10 stage story mode..
choose one Paw Paw Cat character and fight your way to the top and see who gets the highest score Paw Paw Miaw is my first sponsored game. It has been exlusively licensed by GameGarage.co.uk

After its release, I’m verry happy knowing Paw Paw Miaw received a game of the week from GameGarage.co.uk.. It has really helped bring tons of players to play my game.. thank to GameGarage and all of the people who played Paw Paw Miaw..

Here are some feature highlights:

• One on one fighting gameplay, with street fighter/mortal kombat style
• combo and special attack executing via key combination (e.g.: down+forward+punch for fireball)
• hit the enemy will increase the special bar. when it is full, you can release super fireball attack
• 6 playable characters and 1 hidden character (unlocked after finishing story mode at medium or hard level)
• three difficulty level at story mode (easy,medium,hard) which enemies goes stronger
• there are story mode (1 player) and 2 players versus mode
• story mode consist of 10 stages battle against computer (AI) with boss at final level

keyboard controls for player 1:
direction : arrow key
punch : O
kick : P

for player 2:
direction : A,S,D,W
punch : G
kick : H

Special attack:
running : forward + forward
uppercut : down (hold) + punch
fireball : down + forward + punch
push : forward + forward + punch

Play here

Enjoy & thanks for playing .(^_^)/

If you’re using opera browser, it doesn’t need any third party apps or plugins for downloading flash/flv video. Basically, Opera keeps all played flv files in its cache folder.. just copy the flv movie from cache to a new location.. that is the only thing you should do..

let’s follow the simple instruction below:

step 1: locate the cache folder.
This can done by clicking Help->About Opera. In path section, you can see cache folder. Mine is
C:\Documents and Settings\Myiaw\Application Data\Opera\Opera\profile\cache4\

step 2: increase the disk cache limit.
click Tools->preferences, goto advanced tab and Select history in left list. there is a disk cache combobox which show range from 2MB to 400MB. default value is 20MB. change its value to bigger size..
Due to the usually large filesize of FLV video, you should prepare enough room for keep it. the bigger cache limit size, the bigger amount of cache items can be keep.
uncheck empty on exit will prevent your browser to erase its cache when closing the browser.

step3: browse any video site and watch the flv video..
Go to YouTube.com, PutFile.com, Video Break.com, Google.com, iFilm.com, Myspace or any flv video sites. All flv video you’ve played will be automatically and temporarily saved into cache folder.
just browse at cache folder and find files with *.flv extension.
the filename seems cryptic. It automatically given by Opera..  then, copy the .flv files to your destination folder..

note:make sure you wait for the video to finish downloading or streaming..
you will get only some part of video if you skip/stop the video during its streaming process..